The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-03-02

have the muscle under one man : ske n ,anc
the brains under another's- Inevitably
there is a collision; from that one fac
comes communism and and dynamite
When one man monopolizes the brains
another the muscle, the two become sep
arate, and no COED work can be done.
II can look back and recall my owr
youth. and see how the present differs
from the past, by this great change in
putting the brains into the hands. Their
il was mere work of the hands. Ny
grandfather was born in the city of Bos
ton. He came near being a hero. He
had been digging the trenches for the
battle of Bunker Hill, and got so tired he
went to sleep and did not know there
was battle of Bunker Hill until it was
over. | have no doubt but that if be
had not been so tired, he would have
fought like tiger. Not being able to
fight like a tiger, he did the next best
thing, married the best wife, and took
her on her bridal tour, not in palace car
they did not have those then-but on
horseback MolIie jumped up behind
him and they went on their tour to a
log cabin in the woods. Their honey
moon was very enjoyable. | have no
doubt they were perfectly happy. How
ever, he put her into that home and
| went to serve his time in the army
came back afterwards and lived there
seventy years. He was the foremost
| man in the little town he lived in
deacon in the church, and squire, as
he was called, altogether being very
good representative of the old fashioned
country gentleman fifty years ago My
grandmother was good, old-fashioned
country lady. | merely want to show
you how well-to do people did in those
days People had to do their own work.
The Irish girl had not come in, and
| labor-saving machinery had not come.
/ NV grandfather lived in the best house
in town. only want TO show you what
the better class were expected to do;
then the life in that home now, in which
his great-grandson lives. Every Mon
day morning came washing day, wash
ing for ten or Twelve boys and girls. |
| have lust been down to see the college
! laundry in the basement. | assure you
| they had no such arrangement as here.
| There was no wringer except the arms
of the girls. My grandfather was up at
three o'clock in the morning, with
couple of buckets in hand, to start up
hill to, as you say down here, tote"
| water for the wash to the kitchen. If
you go to that house to-day, very much
| the same sort of people are there, but if
| you go there now, you will lind, instead
of the man getting up at three O'Clock
| in the morning to tote that water up
hill, Just as soon as the water Is wanted,
they turn q faucet in the kitchen, and
| the pond comes into the kitchen. The
man can lie in the bed all day If he
wants to. / can remember when 1t took
the labor of grandfather and the boys
almost the whole winter to feed the fam
lily fire. | have actually seen the kitchen
doors thrown open and oxen driven in
to carry the huge back log to put on the
fire, and then three-fourths of the heat
went up the chimney.
A few weeks ago ! was at the Mechan-
les Exhibition in Massachusetts. |
saw a little petroleum stove. Twenty
five cents worth of petroleum per day,
is sufficient for that little stove to heat
as much space as that great fire in my
grandfather's kitchen, and none of the
heat goes up the chimney.
1 remember when my grandfather was
dressed in home made clothes. From
morn till night the click of the spinning
wheel was heard in the house. My
grandfather put on store-clothes on
great occasions, on communion Sunday,
and other occasions, but generally he
was clad in home made and spun
clothes.
In the last exhibition of the spinning
Jenny, l asked the man how many spin
ming wheels like that of my grand
mothers that spinning jenny represent
ed. He said it was twelve hundred and
fifty of them. So you see if all the wo-
meh in that town had been kept spin
ming all the time, they could not have
accomplished what this spinning jenny
was doing, while the man was not doing
much work at all. You can imagine
how slow life was in those days.
The first time / rode to Boston, | got
up at two o'clock in the morning, and
rode till two o'clock in the next day to
reach my destination. Now | run it in
three hours time, and have the rest of
the day for business in the city. So you
see the demand is for skilled labor that
will keep up with this rapid movement.
Some kind of a revolution has visited
the whole life of mankind-a revolution
more wonderful than any legislation can
make, and the results of which are mar
yeilous in their effects on the United
States The London Times says that the
United States is the richest country on
this earth In some cases Americans
have been the most intelligent people on
the face of the earth. | do not mean
the most literary, the most artistic peo
pie, because in this, the Old World,
Europe, always does excel us. | mean
the most intelligent people, who have
done most with their brains nearest
their hands. In the last seventy five
years they have reached out in the
world of labor-saving machinery, the re-
suits of which multiply the productive
power of this people by hundred, even
thousand. They have done more in
seventy five years in this country, in
settling the country and bringing it up
to the highest civilization, than any
other patton could have done in five
hundred, nay a thousand years. You
have facilities now, that were never
dreamed of when | first came into the
world.
What has produced all these marvel
Gus results in invention is putting the
brains into the hands. In manufactur-
ing labor-saving machinery the brains
are crowded into the hands, and it re-
quIres brains to work this machinery.
There must be change in the laborer.
No ignorant, stupid man can manage
the machinery. And that is the reason
so many Americans are working this
| labor-sayiDg machinery with no profit.
1t means this: Just as we are going to
RELY on this method to do business, just
| in proportion the great labor difficulties
will pile up. The laborer must do one
of two things: he must come up to the
mark or perish; must come to use this
great world of machinery or fail. Any
man who keeps one eye open must see
| that unskilled labor is Improbable la
Dor. Skilled labor is the only profitable
| labor. A man who relies upon unskilled
labor is running upon quick-sand. When
a man is employed to run a steam en-
CINE it is asked that he have intelligence
| for it, so you employ a man that under
stands his work or he will do great dam
age. The men of the country must be-
come sufficiently intelligent to under
stand ordinary machinery we'll enough
to be intelligent laborers, not unskilled
| laborers. That's the reason why this
whole country has walked up to the fact
of educating labor.
| Another FedSOu- we nave In luis cOuH-
try lots of ignorant persons from Eu
rope; from countries like Belgium,
where men depend on the muscle alone.
They come into country sparsely in
hsbited, great State like Mississippi,
State capable of supporting millions of
people; into q country bigger than Eu-
rope, and comparatively few people in
it. Their very ignorance makes them
them the prey of designing politicians,
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